It would seem that the taxpayers need another revolt, but this one has to be more sucessful. If I was founding a new "hands across new jersey", then I would use the Libertarian party. We have demonstrated that at a Federal and State level neither the Democrats not the Republicans can be trusted to deliver "smaller government". When I worked on Wall Street, each year we started out budgeting from zero. Everything was up for grabs. What do you have to do and why? That was the first question. Wall Street also loves to drive costs to the unit that benefits from them. It would seem that the "government" needs to learn that lesson.

Now, the state pensions are really bugging me. Probably more than "state cars"! And that is going some. I remember when they kept whining that they need pensions and benefits to recruit. Now state workers have better pensions and benfits than the taxpayers. So I propose that pensions become 401Ks and benefits are 100% employee funded. Then they will be on a level playing field.